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At the entrance to the whole of these salty lower reaches of the
Mulgrave and Russell Rivers are two sandy points reaching into the rivers' shared mouth (aka Mutchero Inlet), the northern point being named 'Flirt Point' and the southern being named 'Point Constantine'. Regarding the Gulgibarra, on
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Mulgrave and Russell Rivers to which the Gulgibarra are particularly associated as an area where the once predominant language spoken was Madjay (reputably so called because they used the form
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November 1873 as part of his command of a Queensland North-East Coast expedition. When naming and exploring the lower reaches of these rivers, at that time, Dalrymple and others (including a botanist,
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210:Wooroonooran National Park
187:Wooroonooran National Park
995:Wet Tropics of Queensland
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28:145°56′56″E
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589:Dixon 1977
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550:Dixon 1972
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323:wild berry
311:flying fox
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205:Bindabarra
167:Malanbarra
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113:Gulgibarra
86:Madjaybana
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881:(1991).
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233:bagirram
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64:(aka
966:ISBN
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903:OCLC
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